Prudence Flowers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4368441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prudence Flowers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prudence |
| FAMILY NAME | Flowers |
| SIGNATURE | FLOWERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3746-8112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Not the end but just the beginning’
In late 2024, a series of anti-abortion political interventions disrupted Australia’s two-decade trajectory of abortion law liberalisation. A South Australian bill proposed live delivery and adoption for abortions after 28 weeks; a Queensland politician pledged to repeal abortion decriminalisation; and a federal shadow minister called for a debate on abortion to feature in the upcoming federal election. These events were linked by shared actors, …
Reproductive rights at home? Prohibiting telehealth abortion in South Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, as governments urged citizens to limit their movements and socially isolate as a protective strategy, the home became a place layered with new meanings. Feminists have long challenged characterisations of the home as a sanctuary. Such characterisations and feminist claims against them took on new complexity and significance during the pandemic. This article investigates access to abortion care i…
The purists and the pragmatists
Voodoo biology
Title X, a federal program funding family planning services in the United States, had broad popular and political support throughout the 1970s. But in the early 1980s, it was subjected to a relentless campaign by anti-abortionists, most notably the Catholic absolutist Judie Brown. Brown blended social with economically conservative rhetoric, attempting to persuade Republican President Ronald Reagan and the broader right-to-life movement that atta…
Fighting the “hurricane winds” of abortion liberalization
In 1971, anti-abortion leaders in the United States came together to establish a new national organization, Americans United for Life (AUL). In its first year, AUL struggled to put ecumenism into practice and deliberated over how best to spread its message. After months of often-bitter debate, right-to-lifers in AUL chose compromise over absolutism and education over protest. They positioned themselves within the secular rather than the theologic…
A Prolife Disaster’
The victory of Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election was a victory for a new form of US political conservatism that emphasized both social and economic issues. Abortion was paramount among these new social issues, and opponents of abortion supported Reagan with the belief that he would work vigorously to overturn Roe v. Wade. Less than six months after Reagan’s inauguration, the national anti-abortion movement was vociferously condemnin…
A Prolife Disaster’
The victory of Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election was a victory for a new form of US political conservatism that emphasized both social and economic issues. Abortion was paramount among these new social issues, and opponents of abortion supported Reagan with the belief that he would work vigorously to overturn Roe v. Wade. Less than six months after Reagan’s inauguration, the national anti-abortion movement was vociferously condemnin…
Fighting the “hurricane winds” of abortion liberalization
In 1971, anti-abortion leaders in the United States came together to establish a new national organization, Americans United for Life (AUL). In its first year, AUL struggled to put ecumenism into practice and deliberated over how best to spread its message. After months of often-bitter debate, right-to-lifers in AUL chose compromise over absolutism and education over protest. They positioned themselves within the secular rather than the theologic…
The purists and the pragmatists
Voodoo biology
Title X, a federal program funding family planning services in the United States, had broad popular and political support throughout the 1970s. But in the early 1980s, it was subjected to a relentless campaign by anti-abortionists, most notably the Catholic absolutist Judie Brown. Brown blended social with economically conservative rhetoric, attempting to persuade Republican President Ronald Reagan and the broader right-to-life movement that atta…
Reproductive rights at home? Prohibiting telehealth abortion in South Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, as governments urged citizens to limit their movements and socially isolate as a protective strategy, the home became a place layered with new meanings. Feminists have long challenged characterisations of the home as a sanctuary. Such characterisations and feminist claims against them took on new complexity and significance during the pandemic. This article investigates access to abortion care i…
‘Not the end but just the beginning’
In late 2024, a series of anti-abortion political interventions disrupted Australia’s two-decade trajectory of abortion law liberalisation. A South Australian bill proposed live delivery and adoption for abortions after 28 weeks; a Queensland politician pledged to repeal abortion decriminalisation; and a federal shadow minister called for a debate on abortion to feature in the upcoming federal election. These events were linked by shared actors, …
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Abortion (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)